“You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, to be mine.” (Lev. 20:26)
The heart of the Missio Dei is found in this nucleus text in the Torah. The people redeemed by God from severe injustices and slavery were supposed to be a model example- a Missio Dei to the rest of humanity. Global society around them practiced spiritual, social, economic, racial . . . injustices. The redeemed people of God, in contrast, were supposed to be phenomenologically and completely distinct from these societies, so that the latter would be drawn to the God of the Mission.
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